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Barnaby Rudge choose

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[UK] Dickens Barnaby Rudge (2003) 329: He was a queer subject altogether [...] one of the finest, stand-up men, you ever see.
at stand-up, adj.
[UK] Dickens Barnaby Rudge (2003) 423: Perhaps, sir, he kicked a county member, perhaps sir he tapped a lord [...] blood flowed from noses.
at tap, v.2
[UK] Dickens Barnaby Rudge (2003) 525: The gentleman, he said, had avowed in so many words that he was ready for working off; such being the case, he considered it their duty [...] to work him off.
at work off (v.) under work, v.
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